Crypto payment firm Alchemy Pay wins money transmitter license in US
Cryptocurrency payment gateway Alchemy Pay is expanding its global presence after securing a major payment license in the United States.Alchemy Pay has obtained a…
Busan is developing an Ethereum-compatible mainnet to become a ‘Blockchain…
South Korea's second-largest city Busan is developing a public blockchain network compatible with mainstream blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and Cosmos. The…
UK politicians don metaverse avatars as they share Web3 roadmap
A group of British politicians took to the metaverse to address global leaders in a 51-nation gathering on Sept. 20, setting out a vision for the United Kingdom’s…
Phishing victim sends eye-watering $4.5M in USDT to scammer
An unwitting cryptocurrency holder has reportedly fallen victim to an eye-watering $4.46 million phishing scam. According to data from Etherscan, $4.46 million in…
Mt. Gox trustee changes repayment deadline to October 2024
Mt. Gox trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi has officially changed the deadline for paying back the exchange’s creditors from Oct. 31, 2023, to Oct. 31, 2024.In a Sept. 21…
Optimism to sell $160M in OP tokens to 7 purchasers via private sale
Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism (OP) has disclosed plans to sell 116 million OP tokens to seven private buyers for treasury management purposesAt…
Bitcoin energy pivot achieves what ‘few industries can claim’ — Bloomberg analyst
While the Bitcoin network has continued to expand over the years, the Bitcoin mining industry has yet to see a comparable increase in carbon footprint — an…
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney talks zk proofs in 25-year-old unearthed footage
Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade before the launch of the first…
Balancer blames ‘social engineering attack’ on DNS provider for website hijack
The team behind Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, believes a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider was what led to its website’s…
OnlyFans, Patreon models turn to Web3 amid payment and censorship fears
Adult content creators have continued to shift towards decentralized versions of OnlyFans and Patreon, after recent payment difficulties and the ever-present…